Lesson Plan Essay

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Introduction
This project integrates the concepts of curriculum design, together with aspects of lesson planning taking into consideration the abilities, level and learning styles of the students. In addition, utilizing the practices put forward under constructivism, we aim to encourage participation and interest of students, within group and individual activities. The teacher acts as facilitator and guide, providing support, feedback and praise where applicable.
Bruner and Haste (1987) described learning as a complex link of language, interaction and cognition. They advocated that it is through interaction and the practice of communication that people learn and that the teacher’s role is to ...view middle of the document...

• Appreciate the use of mean, mode and median in solving real life problems.
Prerequisite knowledge:
Collecting Data,
Analysing and Tabulating/representing data,
Awareness of mean, median, and mode,
Ordering of numbers,
Students should be computer literate,
Basic arithmetic operations
Content:
• The classification and tabulation of data.
• Definitions of ‘average’; ‘mean’; ‘mode’; and ‘median’.
• Determination of mean, mode and median from collected data and when each should be used.
• Uses of mean, mode and median in real-life.
Skills:
• Defining the terms ‘average’, ‘mean’, ‘mode’, and ‘median’;
• Determining the mean, mode and median from given data and deduce when each should be used;
• Identifying the uses of the mean, mode and median in real-life situations.
Materials:
Tablets,
Teacher’s I pad/computer with a playlist of teen popular music,
Data collection sheets,
Computer games,
Student’s tablets with downloaded game,
Data from statistics division,
Calculators,
Stopwatches,
Instruction sheets for group activity
Introduction to lesson:
• Teacher comes into class with her IPad playing a popular teen hit song loud enough to get students attention. When students show interest teacher informs them that she has quite a few others on her device and offers to play a few for the students to tell which one they like best.
• The teacher records the data on the board and then asks, “If we were to select the number that represents the most like song what would that represent in statistics?”
• Teacher tries to pull out the term mode from students. Teacher asks students to recall the other two terms associated with the mode and ask students to explain how they would find these information using the data.
Development:
Teacher explains to class that the government of country X wants to calculate the Average household size as a part of some economic inquiry to make proposition for the country’s budget. Explain that the statistic division is pressed to meet their deadline and is therefore, seeking the assistance of the different high schools. They have zoned the country and given each school a zone and the statistics collected for that zone, i.e. the number of households in that zone along with the number of members in each household. The students are required to use the statistics given to produce information on statistical averages; mode household size, median household size and mean household size.
The teacher explains that to prepare students for the task they will first recap these concepts and engage in some activities that will allow them to explore the concepts.
 The teacher will place students into mixed ability groupings of five. Students will be provided with a written set of instructions that must be followed in order to complete the activity. They will also be given a stopwatch and will be using their tablets with the game “Angry Birds” or “Super Mario Brothers” (downloaded).
 Each group member will be assigned a...

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